Torture

• The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners During the First Month of the Shanghai World Expo 2010

  2010-06-26
  During the visit of US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton to Shanghai on May 22nd and 23rd, 2010, many Falun Gong practitioners in Shanghai were followed and monitored 24 hours a day by police. Just like they capitalised on "security" for the Beijing Olympics to further persecute Falun Gong, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have used the Shanghai World Expo 2010 to intensify the persecution of Falun Gong. From the time preparations began to the opening of the Expo, their propaganda machine has churned out lies and slander about the practice. According to a May 28th report on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website, at the entrance of the Expo, pamphlets that slandered Falun Gong were being sold for five yuan each.
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• Ms. Chen Guang Appeals Seven Year Prison Sentence

  2010-06-26
  After being held in detention for nearly a year, Ms. Chen Guang, 48, was sentenced to seven years in prison on April 14th, 2010. She has appealed, and her case has now been transferred from the Huantai County Court to the Zibo City Intermediate Court. The second trial date is yet to be announced. Agents from the Huantai County 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) seized Ms. Chen from her home, and ransacked it, at around 6:00 p.m. on May 12th, 2009. While in detention, Ms. Chen was shocked with electric batons, injected with unknown substances, and denied the use of the toilet.
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• Ms. Li Shunying Tortured in the Xinli Street Police Station in Heilongjiang Province

  2010-06-26
  Ms. Li Shunying was arrested by officers from the Xinli Street Police Station in Qiqihar City on April 21st, 2010, and severely tortured. Ms. Li recounts her experience in the police station: "They forced me to lie on the ground face down and put a heavy brace on my head. Then they handcuffed my hands and feet, put a two-metre wooden bar though the circle formed by my hands and feet, lifted it up and swung me. My hair was soaked in sweat immediately, and I felt dizzy. Then they put me down on a sofa, lifted my arms to the sides forming a straight line, and handcuffed each one to a rail. The brace was so heavy that I had to hang down my head. My arms hurt terribly."
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• Retired Engineer Monitored by Nine People Employed by Chongqing Authorities

  2010-06-26
  Recently the Politics and Law Committee started to monitor Ms. Wang Liuzhen 24 hours each day and forbid her from moving freely. Ms. Wang was sentenced to forced labour twice (the most recent being in May 2008). In the labour camp she was cruelly beaten many times. The prison guards mixed unknown drugs into detained practitioners' food. Many practitioners suffered from chest pains, dizziness, and confusion after they ate the contaminated food. Ms. Wang went on hunger strikes to protest the mistreatment, but she was tortured even more cruelly as a result. Ms. Wang lost the vision in one of her eyes completely, and her other eye is nearly blind. She cannot remember many things and often feels congested around her heart.
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• Ms. Luo Juan of Chenzhou City, Hunan Province Sentenced to Six Years in Prison

  2010-06-25
  The Beihu District Court in Chenzhou City, Hunan Province sentenced Ms. Luo Juan to six years in prison on May 17th, 2010. None of her family members were informed about the trial. She was also deprived of her right of counsel. Ms. Luo had been enduring torture in a detention centre and passed out on one occasion. Guards tied her up on a metal board, and subjected her to forced injections and brutal force-feedings.
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• Ms. Wen Shuhua Tried in Court Following an Eight-year Imprisonment

  2010-06-25
  Ms. Wen Shuhua from Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province was put on trial around June 13th, 2010 at the Yanhu District Court. No decision was made at the conclusion of that day's trial. Ms. Wen was covertly arrested around March 16th, 2010. Her home was ransacked and turned into a mess. Previously, Ms. Wen was arrested on December 11th, 1999 and detained for more than 20 days. She was then sentenced to eight years in prison in 2000. Less than two years since her release in 2008, she was once again subjected to persecution.
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• Four Falun Gong Practitioners Handed Long Sentences in Maoming City, Guangdong Province

  2010-06-25
  Maonan Court sentenced four Falun Gong practitioners on May 20th, 2010. Ms. Lu Hongfei was sentenced to 15 years, Mr. Li Jian to 12 years, Ms. Cheng Li to 11 years, and Ms. Zhang Weirong to 6 years. Thirty-one-year-old Mr. Li Jian went to Beijing to appeal in 2001 and was sent to a labour camp for one year. After returning home in 2002, he was soon picked up and taken to Maoming Brainwashing Centre by police, which used the 16th Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Congress as justification for detaining him. Later he was sent to Sanshui Forced Labour Camp, but he still did not give in. After the labour camp term expired, officials sent him back to Maoming Brainwashing Centre. He went on a hunger strike for more than 10 days to protest. Fearing he might die, the guards released him.
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• Lianyungang City 610 Office Agents Persecute Mr. Zhu Chao and His Wife Ms. Dong Yueling

  2010-06-25
  Mr. Zhu Chao and his wife Ms. Dong Yueling from Puyang, Henan Province are from Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province. Lianyuangang City 610 Office agents (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), arrested the couple on April 12th, 2010. Ms. Dong and her daughter, who was about to take the national college entrance examination, were escorted back to their hometown on April 29th. Mr. Zhu was placed in criminal detention around June 10th.
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• Mr. Sun Yi Tortured for Four Months with "Airplane Style Hanging" in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

  2010-06-24
  From December 2009 to March 2010, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Sun Yi was cruelly tortured by being hung up "airplane style" by guards in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. In "Airplane style hanging," the victim is handcuffed to high poles, and his feet are tied together. His body then hangs in the air like an airplane. The handcuffs cut into the flesh of both wrists. Sometimes, if the police fear that the victim's family will sue the torturers for mistreatment by using the scars on the victim's hands as evidence, they wrap the victim's wrists and ankles with cotton so that there are no scars.
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• Father of Mr. Lei Jingxiong Appeals for His Son's Innocence

  2010-06-24
  On June 28th, 2009, 30-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Lei Jingxiong was arrested by police from the local National Security Team. In 2010, his family received a notice from Duyun Prison in Guizhou Province, saying that Lei Jingxiong was sentenced to eight years imprisonment at Duyun Prison on January 14th. When his father, Mr. Lei Yuanjun, a 57-year-old peasant, learned that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had sentenced his kind and honest son to eight years on false theft charges he appealed for his son's innocence. The father said his son was always kind and honest ever since he was young.
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• Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners by 610 Office Agents in Cangxi County, Sichuan Province

  2010-06-24
  Ms. Wang Yao was arrested and taken to the Jiuquxi Hotel Detention Centre. The police extorted confessions by torturing her, brainwashing her and depriving her of sleep for more than 10 days. One day, detention centre doctor Zheng Ze ordered Ms. Wang to kneel. Ms. Wang tried to persuade him not to commit bad deeds against Falun Gong practitioners because this would do him no good. Zheng Ze completely ignored her advice and trampled on her legs. He also beat her chest and stomach, and slapped her face. After he was tired of beating her, he paraded her on the street and put her at the Cangxi County Court front entrance in a public show of humiliation. Back at the detention centre, the abusers placed Ms. Wang in handcuffs and shackles.
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• Dujun Prison Officials Isolate Mr. Dai Qiyuan in a Dark, Damp Basement

  2010-06-24
  Mr. Dai Qiyuan is a Falun Gong practitioner from Chishui City, Guizhou Province. Ever since the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999, his whole family has been subjected to detention and/or forced labour numerous times. His wife is currently under house arrest, and his son and daughter's whereabouts are not known. Mr. Dai himself is still being held in the dark and damp basement of Dujun Prison.
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• Practitioners from Liaoning and Hunan Provinces Die after Enduring Torture

  2010-06-23
  Ms. Wei Shuwen was taken to a forced labour camp twice and tortured. She died on May 15th, 2010, at the age of 64 as a result of torture. In, 2001, Ms. Wei went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practise Falun Gong and was arrested and taken to the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp, where she was tortured. In 2003 she was sent to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, where she was imprisoned for a year and a half. Ms. Wei was tortured, beaten, forced to stand for a long time, deprived of sleep and forbidden to use the toilet. She was forced to produce products for which the material emitted poisonous fumes.
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• Ms. Shen Xueya Falls and Dies after Being Mentally Traumatised from Forcibly-Administered Drugs at Chongqing Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2010-06-23
  Unknown drugs were forcibly administered to Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Shen Xueya at the Chongqing Women's Forced Labour Camp for a year and a half. Chongqing Women's Forced Labour Camp is a place where guards with no human nature torture good people. They use all kinds of methods to create stress. The goal is to break the practitioners' wills and cause mental anguish. As a result, Ms. Shen developed a mental disorder. On March 1st, 2009, from a semiconscious state, she fell to the floor and died.
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• Mr. Nie Feiyue Suffers Mental Collapse Due to Torture at Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp

  2010-06-23
  Mr. Nie Feiyue was taken to the Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp in Changsha City, Hunan Province on two occasions simply because he went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. After his last detention ended in 2004, Mr. Nei showed symptoms of a mental breakdown, and has not recovered in the years since. In the labour camp, guards forced Mr. Nie to watch videos that slandered Falun Gong all day to try to torture him mentally and spiritually. At night, he was deprived of sleep, forced to stand for a long period of time, and beaten. They later tied his feet together and both of his arms up behind his back.
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